Mainframes are back
Cheap little servers handle so much of the Internet’s dirty work that giant computers known as mainframes, which debuted 50 years ago and often cost more than $1 million, are supposed to be passe.
When Hoplon Infotainment, a startup video game company in Brazil, let it be known that it uses a mainframe to operate its signature online game, “People would actually take a step back and say, 'What? Did I hear correctly?’ ” said Tarquinio Teles, Hoplon’s CEO.
Yet mainframes are inspiring new ways of doing things at organizations like Hoplon. The trend is driven by and anxiously watched at IBM Corp., which makes the vast majority of the world’s remaining mainframes and continues to be hugely reliant on them.
As mainframes ceased to be the center of gravity, they mainly lived on in government agencies, banks or complex networks like airline travel systems. Many such places needed mainframes’ heavy-duty security and processing ability, but others were locked into the specialized programs they had written in mainframes’ unique language.
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